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Book of the Week: “Europe in the international order” by Roman Kuźniar
The rise and fall of Europe’s aim to rebuild its position in global politics after the Cold War.
With success in the unification of Europe and the subsequent deepening and enlargement of its integration, the Union set itself the ambitious task of becoming a global power, even a superpower.
However, starting with the first decade of the XXI century, we have witnessed a rapid erosion of the international position of Europe (the EU). The author carefully analyses the causes of the EU’s failure in pursuing the role of European representative, Europe thereby pretending to the role of one of three world powers. Besides cultural and demographic trends, the author identifies the main factors leading to this failure: the divergent interests of individual European powers, their incapacity to act in a geopolitical context and the rapid erosion of Europe’s civilizational identity.
The rapid decline of Europe’s international position threatens the appearance of a new and bipolar global arrangement together with the further marginalisation of Europe.
Publisher: Berlin ; Bern : Peter Lang, 2018
Call Number: 327.91 HEIA 123903
Documenting data: Readme.txt
Sharing a dataset is nice, but to make it truly open you must make sure it can be interpreted and used in a meaningful way. This means your data should always include documentation that explains everything a third party should know, and a Readme file is perhaps the easiest sort of documentation you can create.
Continue reading “Documenting data: Readme.txt”Film de la semaine : “Samouni Road” de Stefano Savona
Dans la périphérie rurale de la ville de Gaza, la famille Samouni s’apprête à célébrer un mariage. C’est la première fête depuis la dernière guerre.
Amal, Fouad, leurs frères et leurs cousins ont perdu leurs parents, leurs maisons et leurs oliviers. Le quartier où ils habitent est en reconstruction. Ils replantent des arbres et labourent les champs, mais une tâche plus difficile encore incombe à ces jeunes survivants : reconstruire leur propre mémoire. Avec des séquences d’animation, Samouni Road dresse un portrait de cette famille au fil de leurs souvenirs, avant, pendant et après l’événement qui a changé leur vie à jamais.
Jour2fête 2019
Cote : 6.5.1 SAM
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